Israel: A Miracle in Agriculture
I am presently in Israel in next half an hour I'm going to show you miracles in Israeli agriculture and how India is following it and many other countries are also following it really Israeli agriculture is a miracle and we will show you how Israelis are doing the best in agriculture sector Israel the biblical Holy Land a country known for its rich culture and history a sacred place the Jews and Christians across the world a country of clean and beautiful infrastructure of historical sites a country of around 1 crore thriving population a bridge between Asia Africa and Europe Israel is so important that every country wants to have a relation with it but Israel is also this land in conflict a country on perpetual brink of war with Palestine known for its hard trained world-class soldiers which of these is the real Israel Palestinian residents of its occupied eastern half protested outside the old cities Damascus Gate seeking the answers my team and I took to the streets of Jerusalem watching the locality is speaking with the locals we are told that Israel's success stories neither its military nor the sophisticated technology but agriculture Israel's milestones Israel was established on 14th May 1948 Jews from all over the world went to Israel Jews called Israel as their homeland they developed their country with missionary zeal over half of Israel saline soil was added for semi-arid only 20% of the total land was arable now it tripled the territory used for farming its production also multiplied 16 times since then his rails agricultural success is a learning lesson close cooperation between farmers agro industry and technological research are key to success Israel's research and development is 17 percent of its total agricultural budget we came across a Binyamin bene an Indian by descent but an Israeli citizen a Jew by religion and a successful businessman he said Israel has traveled very fast to make itself independent in food security in 1970s it was a lot of troubles that we had of water and lot of food to get boots and all that except orange I remember oranges and and Contras you know that that's what we were supposed to be were getting that thing but slowly slowly develop agriculture of course with the education and then slowly slowly they started doing dealing with the agriculture today Israel is completely out of I mean we don't import anything we just do our tables and we'll of course and today you can get all the fruits except from tropical like I know like Jack wood and coconut we can get but otherwise almost all the fruits we are getting every disco version of Israel so a lot of things that not only spiritually in our on the path they are given the creek to big ones how long apart and then you have oranges in in and then you have the grapes in Nasik so all these kind of things are coming from as well and I think this is one of the great things of Israel to give India a small small country to be country because you are having lot of leads we contacted the Israeli Foreign Ministry to try to understand from them the strength of the our country and finally we will suggested to visit Amnon often who will tell you about Israeli agriculture about 40 kilometres from Jerusalem we travel to kibbutz nard to meet Amnon offended subscrible is comfortable and we travel through lush green area and agricultural fields in his office I'm not often an agricultural engineer and director of non dine Jian company exposed us to a brief history of Israel and its agricultural endeavor is unknown in the kind of settlement which are kyboots o moshe of kyboot is a social settlement which everybody is equal and in the beginning this was the most significant of Israel after we came out of of the Exile so none is a kyboot so none Dan chain is based on three company now and an engine on is Disraeli pioneer company established in V in 1937 so we are now celebrating 80 years agriculture in Israel is a highly developed industry this despite the fact that the geography of Israel is not naturally conducive to agriculture more than half of the land area is desert and the climate and lack of water resources do not favor farming presidents remind us that agriculture isn't an age-old concept of Israel Jews were traditionally never trained to be farmers but the onslaught of the second world war forced them to gather at one place Palestine and the Israelis took it upon themselves to make something of the barren lands what followed has surprised not just Israel but the entire world Israel produces over 90 percent of its own food requirements and feeds several parts of the world Israel is a major exporter of fresh produce and world leader in agricultural technologies we've developed technologies to beat the heat and the dry lands infertility Israel is home to two unique types of agricultural communities the kibbutz and moshav today we are in a kibbutz area kyboot ism is a collective community in Israel following a combination of socialism and Zionism vast lush green patches farmers going about their work but there's something different about the way farming is done here [] you might be thinking this is just sea or a lake some mass of water but it is neither the sea nor a lake we will tell you it is something else that you will be surprised about the plastic tunnels that you see here are not a series of pipelines to carry water it's a device to save the plants from water amazing but true the country that is deprived of water clearly knows how to save each drop let's go in and see how it looks [] inside the tunnel you can see brinjals growing the vegetables are being taken care of like a child inside these white covers and these holes you see are for the plants to breathe certainly very different from how a brinjals grow back in India did this mist often right now in his early the winter okay and it's raining so it's our monsoon so we cannot go in monsoon in open field so we're going in small tunnel as you can see here and we're going here bundle which is will not be raining or called we can remove the plastic covering and if it will come again called or when we will cover it so we can supply by these two the whole deal at flame to the market not only in season which we can go in open in summer here we can go so in summer but it quite some time difficult so we can go it also in in in this plastic but what is my dream is that also India will use lot of plastic covering and compete with the monsoon because India is still pending the Indian farmers still pending on the monsoon if the monsoon is good so using plastic covering small tunnel big tunnel or greenhouse this is one of the solution for India to get all here product and yield the long series of tunnels will often make you feel as if you are confronting an industrial environment no doubt agriculture in Israel is like an industrial product it requires lot of capital and skilled labour since Israel is a small population of nearly 90 lakh people so they employ labor from outside and their preferences PI laborers is there in small countries and we are coming to agreement with the talent government okay and they are sending here deliver their super working very good morning till evening no don't complain complain and when they are going back to Thailand they are doing it implemented in their country oh so double benefit double band that you don't think that it is your patent right is getting its mission areas to assist all farmer in the world [] now we move to the cactus plants these are part of major plantations in Israel who would imagine that these flowers full of thorns are actually edible you can eat the tiny red fruits after cleaning them and you can even eat the leaves the farmer says that Israel is developing a seedless variety of cactus that may be helpful in meeting food security and also treat ailments like diabetes this is the reason why cactus is drawn on a large scale all across Israel and in Hebrew on Arabic name subways Subway's meaning that inside the food is very sweet so disraeli are inside very very sweet but outside very torn so the Israeli who born in Israel their name is Assemblies service is the Arabic name Israel's crops half of Israel's total agricultural production of fruits and vegetables oranges grapefruits lemons apples apricots grapes peaches mangoes plums dates cactus and pears art major fruits his rails greenhouse tomatoes cherry tomatoes peppers herbs and melons are of the highest international standards they are also producing fish in deserts and they also grow wheat in low quantity his Raley potatoes are of very high quality now we move towards an orange orchard these are mandarins thin-skinned seedless and very sweet these trees are pruned to allow more sunlight which means more fruits and the spacing between the rows of trees is very crucial to these trees are covered to save them from the acidic rains this is a special type of Mandarin name-o very thin-skinned okay and seedless okay and very very sweet sweet super sweet you get a variety of orange its its mandarine not citrus it's not C - this is mandarine see there's no seed in this they no sleep in this this is Fitness oh now can you see hmm this is our new system of going okay in the past the tree was very high Omega now what we're doing after harvesting we are pulling the trees and giving more light inside okay so this is what we call intensive way of going more like side more yield outside and now new system of going in Israel we call it the world going meaning we are cutting straight here and straight for the other and we are going only do on the wall okay both side so it's easy also to harvesting and what you see here this is the plastic when there's a big grain Oh some we can covering it okay again health you know health you know health when it's coming hydro collie okay big health we can covering and keep the plantation a life above yeah don't we the pharma insists I should take some oranges for myself and my team and just like that it starts raining the trees are protected but not our cameras and we rush for shelter [] all the running has made us hungry and it's the right time to savor some Israeli food we are at the kyboot village club and line up with the others for food [] it is delicious my team is relieved that there is vegetarian food to mope children and adults come here to have joint community dining spiced rice pulses assorted vegetables chicken there's everything including fruit an inseparable part of each meal they tell us after food it is now time for the village children to play or pose for our cameras [] we move ahead and the locals also tell us that livestock farming is a big source of income for many Israelis all of israel's milk consumption originates from dairy farms within the country with most herds consisting largely of Israeli Holsteins the high yielding disease-resistant breed further mow sheep milk is exported this is often again he shows us how they look after the large plantations with the help of these water sprinklers and sprayers each for a different type of crop [] [] is named rain thought okay while in thought because the discharge of the sprinkler is like falling off rain okay so when when it is deep arrogation so do you need such type of a sprinklers yes because always there are some times which you can use also this sprinkler will give you some time better solutions and the drip sometimes you also can you can combine because you can put it in in in small wind like towing so duplication you can also put after regression you can okay you don't have to put do a sprinkler to all the farm okay we get today here then you shoot it by hand drip irrigation is the main contribution of Israel in agriculture the water goes directly to the roots this saves wastage of water for drip irrigation pipes are laid in sequence like this giving proper space to the plants [] irrigation systems are actually the main strength and innovation of Israeli agriculture there are various types of irrigation systems that Israelis are using these include Jets wrinkling and spring in different ways [] computer controlled drip irrigation computerized early warning systems for leaks thermal imaging for crop water stress detection biological pest control are Israel's uniqueness new varieties of fruit and vegetables are its main achievements of Agriculture dairy and desert farming are superb Israel's natural water supplies are below the UN definition of water poverty 86% of water is reused and stored after the cell nation through plants Israel exports agriculture technology all over the world I'm not often also took us for around to a factory that makes equipment the equipment is the backbone of agriculture in Israel the equipment is made locally not imported from China these are nozzles of different sizes and shapes that become part of water jets for farming communities the farmers are able to shift from flood irrigation to duplication and this is how in the last 10-15 years at least five to seven million Indian farmers shifting for flood to good irrigation and other tree with other companies it means that the farmers are not stupid they're understood that by using duplication they are getting double yield or sometimes three times more and they can survive and do money this factory is being run by non Don Jane company and its CEO is David a role car interestingly he is also of Indian origin but was born here he shows us around and explains how the Israel of today is a change from its time of Inception making here is also part of oh okay what's the making from India I'll get out thank you so much thank you thank you amnon often has a plan for India - he says though it requires some money in the beginning but it can be easily made up in a year but fair should be willing and awareness from the local government local state so Masha okay Gujarat is okay yupi is okay but as much as more the local state we understand it will be done but it is not very costly I will tell you one year after one you give you cover your investment in one year so it's it it's cost-effective and he wants to open one-stop solution for everything from seed to fertilizers to agriculture in Indian villages we are coming with a basket of solution okay he's not have to go 200 people to get fertilizer to get pumped to get Drupal to get filter or to get seeds don't we are coming one-stop as workshop one unit we give him full solution from A to Z everything everything from zero to the end so this is Israeli agriculture indeed Israel is a revelation the farming communities are far from the cliched image the world has of the country it's no surprise that apart from modern weaponry and technology India is highly interested in investing in Israel's farming techniques this is not very easy to do agriculture in Israel but Israelis are doing it they have put their hearts and minds into it and also applied best technology into it I have shown you just a glimpse of it but missed part of is that it is also coming to India and it will be in the interest of both India and Israel this is all in reservoir television for this special report we will come back to you again with another report aquiles omen for Raja on television which can a person Jeunet in coupiet village of Israel
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